Dinner For Breakfast Anyone?

Lot's of discussion about flipping traditional eating habits. Dinner for breakfast has taken on an interesting following. In short it means taking the calories normally consumed for dinner at breakfast. Why? Because if you think about calories and the ability to burn calories it makes sense to load up at the earliest part of the day so that you can efficiently burn the calories over more hours in a day.

Conversely, dinner for breakfast provides a much better stability for the way the body will store the natural minerals and vitamins early in the day and thus process the fat content more efficiently.

It's all about the cortisol. Cortisol, from what we are learning is more active at 8a than at 8p. Cortisol has been found to encourage the breakdown of fat and through this action impacts the body's metabolic rate. So, no heavy meals in the morning will see peak cortisol circulation with inadequate food to act on, impacting fat metabolism and the switch on/switch off action of fat enzymes. Thus the flipping of the way we think about Meals (not food) but meals is essential to utilize the concept of dinner for breakfast and see the maximum results based on timing and breakdown.

This does not imply that you can eat like a horse in the morning. Has anyone ever validated that phrase, eat like a horse"? Sorry, I digressed. Eat right but think about the overall concept of moving your heaviest meal to the morning and not in the traditional evening hours when our bodies have lower capabilities for the breakdown of the carbs and calories unlike the mornings.

By all means think about flipping your exercise to the late evening. This will maximize your bodies ability to burin calories and process fat over the day while your finale in the evening is like a fat sweeper. Eat a healthy but light dinner then jog, walk, run, lift weights or play a sport with the kids or local recreation center but move that body before you hit the pillow. You will sleep better and you will finish the day with maximum burn realized.

As always, don't go off and do things without consulting your family doctor. If you have a nutritionist discuss this with them and bounce this philosophy off of them as they know combinations and thus interactions with the food pyramid that when combined properly are efficiently processed by the body during the day. Enjoy.